Course Summary

The Apache™ Hadoop® project develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. Learn the fundamental principles behind it, and how you can use its power to make sense of your Big Data.

Why Take This Course?

How Hadoop fits into the world (recognize the problems it solves)

Understand the concepts of HDFS and MapReduce (find out how it solves the problems)

Write MapReduce programs (see how we solve the problems)

Practice solving problems on your own

Prerequisites and Requirements

Lesson 1 does not have technical prerequisites and is a good overview of Hadoop and MapReduce for managers.

To get the most out of the class, however, you need basic programming skills in Python on a level provided by introductory courses like our Introduction to Computer Science course.

Lesson 4

Final Project

Instructors & Partners

Instructor

Sarah Sproehnle is the Vice President of Educational Services at Cloudera, a company that helps develop, manage and support Apache Hadoop. While she is a geek at heart, her passion is helping people learn complex technology. In addition to teaching people how to use Hadoop, she's taught database administration, various programming languages, and system administration.

Instructor

Ian Wrigley is currently the Senior Curriculum Manager at Cloudera, responsible for the team which creates all the company's Hadoop training materials. He's been a tech journalist, an instructor, and a course author for over 20 years, during which time he's taught everything from C programming to copywriting for the Web. He describes his job as "teaching geeks to be geekier".